Quality Healthcare Asia is gearing up for a concerted push into China, attracted by the country's fast-growing medical services market.
Director Brian O'Connor said the company planned to establish a clinic network in China's major cities by the end of this year or early next year.
The long-term plan was to develop China's first integrated healthcare services network, similar to the one the company had developed in Hong Kong. He said that while there were some foreign-run clinics in cities such as Beijing they were small-scale operations.
Quality Healthcare is Hong Kong's biggest publicly traded healthcare provider with 700 Western and Chinese medicine centres, and 46 dental and physiotherapy centres.
Mr O'Connor said self-paid medical services would be a long-term policy for the mainland government as it realised the country could not afford to keep carrying the big financial burden.
'That creates a lot of opportunities for a Hong Kong medical service provider,' he said.